novel story - R. K. Narayan - The English Teacher

Krishnan, the central figure of RK Narayan's "The English professor, undertook a journey emotionally, intellectually and spiritually, in the novel. At the beginning of the novel, he is an English teacher, lives and teaches at the school where he was once a student, and eventually we begin to see resigned, interacting in the nursery school and learn to mentally with his dead wife.
Krishnan change is not due to a major project or ambition, but as a result of a series of difficult circumstances, which, after it begins to act outside of the environmental protection and to take, caused the closure of his school.
But if unforeseen travel Krishnan, a number of issues will be developed as a part of the novel. These issues could be a step forward Krishnan, predictability in the unpredictable, science in the real world of life and death in adulthood in childhood and a Western mentality Eastern mentality.
Predictable unpredictability.
Krishnan is always sorted in situations that are predictable and should be after the events that are ready spontaneous and unpredictable, and it is clear that the spontaneity and unpredictability of being stimulating and invigorating, while the predictability and order, although it while a cushion of comfort and security is ultimately suffocate and amortization
Susila, his wife brings unpredictability in his life at every turn. For example, if a house she wants to make a long detour up the river and bathe her feet, where the rational course would take Krishnan ordered to seek the direct way, and it is clear that his unpredictable behavior is a source of joy and inspiration.
The turning point of history with the unpredictability Susila. When they go home, could not guess we take it to be a walk on your own, stuck in the toilet dirty and sick.
The futility of clinging to the belief that life can be is displayed neatly, predictable and knowable, into two central projections and symmetric, which is highlighted in the novel. The first is the assertion of the physician, such as typhoid, which is Susila has contracted the fever, which is strictly its own rules. It follows a schedule "and that will also Susila in a few weeks. But despite his assurances that his attack is" absolutely normal. No complications. A perfect race Susila typhoid die. "
The other figures show the futility of believing that life can be is obvious and predictable to see in the main, the belief in a prediction made by an astrologer, "can see the past, present and future, and give it its true value "He will die at some point. But, although (as the doctor had said that typhoid fever was Susila "a perfect race, typhoid), the Director has determined that is his life exactly as he predicted life gone headmaster.
These two episodes show the limits of human ability to understand and predict the world. The truth is that we can not know and can not predict is, and any conception of life, regardless of whether derived from modern Western science, or ancient Eastern mysticism, which looks beyond recognition and ignores what is assumed known, and it seems predictable, which is completely inadequate.
From the scientific to the "law of life"
Although, these episodes are not rational to believe Krishnan with something, they put him in the face of the reality of life and death in the face and confront the realities of life, without shelter in the World Safer Brain literature and philosophy is an important part of his journey.
To come, with the death of his wife, literature, philosophy and rationalism, are useless for him. They are all illusions, and travel, ie leave it behind illusions. Krishnan wants to discover the truth can be found in Shakespeare, or Carlyle Plato, it is only found in real people leading real lives, it is the "law of life."
From childhood to adulthood
Children are very much present in "The English teacher, and are important guidelines for Krishnan on his journey. Children to help show him the way the youngest children, her own daughter, Leela and the kids in kindergarten, she works with.
The most important figure in the novel, after Krishnan and his family, is the director of the School of Leela. He is a champion of childhood, after dedicating his life from the children receiving the prediction that he would die, and believes they are "angels", "true gods on earth," and employs what he calls "The system let because in his school.
During the second half of the discovery of novel Krishnan children as resistance effective measure against the "curse of adulthood, and the opening of his mind he knows through meditation and opens the way for his resignation from his previous work and the adoption of an authentic life.
From West to East
Another factor is that the travel Krishnan the juxtaposition of Western and indigenous cultural attitudes, the attitude of the Indians to a newer generation and more fulfilled. For example, if Susila is sick, it is treated by both a doctor of Western medicine, scientific method, and by a Swamiji, the mystical healing uses. The Swamiji of the mother of Susila what a generation older than he thinks Krishnan, who the "evil eye fell on his daughter is called, and it is remarkable that Krishnan as" shameful "that the doctor is the" Swamiji in the house, telling him insane, and embarrassed by the indigenous culture of the older generation of his own country.
The last leg of the journey takes Krishnan from the base of the Western intellectual spirit inherited from the British in which it was incorporated into the opening of the novel, and the native Indian spiritual practices. To achieve its goal of a "harmonious coexistence", he takes the challenge of mental release of his deceased wife, whom he replaced at first by a medium to his mind enough to communicate with the development of his mental self, and the gap between life and the life after death. Although he initially through the practice of devotion to his wife, his mocking "Oh Become a Yogi," he now relies on to guide them from beyond the grave had been mistaken in his personality development.
In the last chapter of the novel questions for the head with Krishnan come resignation from his post as professor of English and his reunion with his wife's mental. In his attack against the system, he leans against him do not complain about English literature who could insensitive to the sonnets of Shakespeare, or Ode to the West Wind ", but the membership of India an education system that stifles the spirit of the students and alienated from their culture of origin: